SSD or SSHD upgrade?

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I'm planning to upgrade my old laptop HDD to SSD becoz it has an incredibly slow booting time.

 

Then I realized that my laptop mobo only has SATA 2.. so it will definitely bottleneck the new SSD (planning to get arc 100 120GB)

 

Then I just saw seagate's Thin SSHD 500GB having a same price. Does anyone have an experience using SSHD? Any good? I only want faster boot time than the current one.

 

Thx

[W-L]

I'm planning to upgrade my old laptop HDD to SSD becoz it has an incredibly slow booting time.

Then I realized that my laptop mobo only has SATA 2.. so it will definitely bottleneck the new SSD (planning to get arc 100 120GB)

Then I just saw seagate's Thin SSHD 500GB having a same price. Does anyone have an experience using SSHD? Any good? I only want faster boot time than the current one.

 

Thx

 

Even with sata II you will see a huge difference compared to a HDD or an SSHD.

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Even with sata II you will see a huge difference compared to a HDD or an SSHD.

How much faster the SSD compare to SSHD?

[Enderman]

1) never get an SSHD unless its for an ultracompact notebook that only has 1 drive bay

 

2) an SSHD will never be faster than an SSD (unless you buy a crap SSD)

 

3) since you said you only have sata 2, the SSHD will be just as bottlenecked as a regular SSD

 

4) a separate HDD+SSD is the best option whenever possible

 

5) if its not clear yet, buy an SSD, you will still get massive performance improvements even on SATA2

[W-L]

How much faster the SSD compare to SSHD?

 

I have a laptop with a built in SSHD capability with a flash memory buffer and HDD and to say it was fast was not even close it was basically a little faster than a regular HDD during boot up. I switched it out with an SSD within a few months.

[The Pizza Thief]

SSD all the way

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k thx, im going for ssd